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Reconstructing the Russian Trump Dossier Story: A Timeline
Original research | 01/13/2017 | Fedora

Posted on 01/13/2017 4:58:05 AM PST by Fedora

September 2005: Bill Clinton visits Kazakhstan with Canadian mining tycoon Frank Giustra on a visit arranged by Siberian nuclear physicist Sergei Kurzin, a former employee of Marc Rich who traveled Russia scouting investment opportunities for Rich; Giustra makes a deal to acquire uranium assets through shell company UrAsia, to be transferred through a merger with South African/Canadian company Uranium One in February 2007; Senator Hillary Clinton applies pressure to Kazakh officials to approve the deal; Giustra subsequently gives $31.3 million to the Clinton Foundation, the first of several large donations; Uranium One will begin buying uranium assets in the U.S., putting in on track to control half of U.S. uranium output by 2015

2009-2012: Uranium One chairman Ian Tefler begins funneling an eventual $2.35 million to Clinton Foundation through the Fernwood Foundation, a Canadian entity, and through the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative; the Clinton Foundation fails to disclose this in its tax records; Uranium One associates Robert Disbrow, Paul Reynolds, and Frank Holmes also make multi-million dollar donations to the Clinton Foundation

June 2009: Russia’s state nuclear energy agency Rosatom, which operates in Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and Myanmar, begins buying stakes in Uranium One, reflecting a 2006 $10 billion decision to increase Russian uranium production 600 percent

December 2009: Rosatom’s chief lays out plan to Russian government officials to begin acquiring uranium outside Russia; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is meanwhile negotiating the 123 Agreement with the Russian government allowing U.S. and Russian firms to cooperate in development of civilian nuclear energy

March 2010: Secretary Clinton meets with Putin in Moscow to discuss pressuring Iran, but Putin proposes completing a civil nuclear power station, prompting Clinton to object to the mixed message this would send Iran; however, Clinton and Putin agree on New START nuclear talks and commercial opportunities in areas such as civilian nuclear power

May 2010: Obama administration submits US-Russian Civilian Nuclear Cooperation Agreement to Congress; weeks later, Rosatom announces decision to seek majority share in Uranium One; meanwhile on May 21, 2010, Canadian investment company Salida Capital cosponsors a Bill Clinton speech in Calgary; Salida subsequently moves into the Ukranian market in partnership with an adviser to Energy Ministery Yuri Boyko, who helps create a trading company Putin uses to control Ukranian natural gas trade

July 2010: Secretary Clinton visits Ukraine

October 2010: Russian majority share purchase of Uranium One is approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a body that includes Secretary Clinton

2011: A “Salida Capital” is identified in a Rosatom annual report as a wholly-owned subsidiary; when contacted, Canada’s Salida Capital refuses to discuss whether this is the same company

January 2011: Congress approves 123 Agreement

June 2011: FBI arrests members of a Russian spy ring which has targeted a leading fundraiser for and friend of Hillary Clinton; Bill Clinton receives $500,000 for speaking in Moscow to an event for Renaissance Capital (RenCap), a firm registered in Cyprus with former Russian intelligence officers on staff; Clinton also meets with Putin

2013: Rosatom announces plans to take 100 percent control of Uranium One; in fall 2013, Rosatom passes operational control of Bushehr nuclear reactor to Iran; Uranium One attempts to buy uranium mine in Arizona but the Navajo Nation objects

November 2013: Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovych refuses to sign free trade agreement with EU, triggering protests linked to CIA-backed groups funded by George Soros

February 2014: Ukranian revolution ousts Yanukovych

March 2014: Russia occupies Crimea

March to June 2015: Obama administration, the UK, France, Russia, and China work out nuclear deal with Iran

Spring 2015: Hackers target DNC consultant Alexandra Chalupa, who was doing opposition research on Donald Trump; Chalupa’s emails will later be released by Wikileaks

Summer 2015: Hacker COZY BEAR infiltrates DNC network

July 2015: Koch brothers screen Republican Presidential candidates Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Scott Walker; they also decide not to support Trump

September 2015: A “wealthy Republican donor who strongly opposed Mr. Trump” hires Fusion GPS to do opposition research on Trump; Fusion GPS hires former MI6 agent Christopher Steele’s firm Orbis Business Intelligence

Late February 2016: Clinton team meets to discuss Donald Trump’s February 20 win in South Carolina and February 23 win in Nevada; most of team does not see Trump as a threat but Bill Clinton insists “that Mr. Trump clearly had a keen sense of the electorate’s mood and that only a concerted campaign portraying him as dangerous and bigoted would win what both Clintons believe will be a close November election.”

February 25, 2016: Anti-Defamation League, previously involved in bribing Clinton to pardon Marc Rich, issues press release calling on Trump to disavow ex-KKK leader David Duke

February 28, 2016: CNN’s Jake Tapper, interviewing Trump, cites the ADL’s press release and calls upon Trump to disavow Duke; when Trump says this is the first he’s heard of the story and he wants to check it out for himself before responding, Tapper continues insisting that he answer; press subsequently reports that Trump “failed to disavow” Duke

April 2016: Hacker FANCY BEAR infiltrates DNC network, targets Trump opposition research; FBI notifies DNC of breach

May 9, 2016: Judge Andrew Napolitano says Russia has 20,000 of Clinton’s emails they are debating releasing

May 2016: NATO deploys missile defense to Romania and Poland over Russian objections

June 12, 2016: Wikileaks’ Julian Assange announces he has information to indict Hillary Clinton

June 14, 2016: Hack of DNC is publicly disclosed, attributed to Russia; Washington Post reports that Russian hackers targeted information on Trump; Russia denies responsibility

July 2016: Steele shares his Russian Trump dossier with an FBI contact he knows from the FIFA corruption investigation

July 5, 2016: FBI announces it will not recommend prosecution of Hillary Clinton

June 15, 2016: Guccifer 2.0 claims responsibility for DNC hack

June 16-17, 2016: Wikileaks uploads and releases “insurance” file

July 18-21, 2016: Donald Trump selected as Republican Presidential candidate; Steele begins shopping his opposition research to Hillary Clinton; NATO summit agrees to deploy rotating battalions of troops to Eastern Europe to ease anxieties about Russia

July 22, 2016: Wikileaks releases 20,000 DNC emails, the first of several document dumps

July 25-28, 2016: Hillary Clinton selected as Democratic Presidential candidate

July 25, 2016: FBI announces it will investigate hack

July 30, 2016: Russian officials report being hacked

September 9, 2016: Donald Trump interview with Larry King appears on RT America, affiliated with Russian state broadcaster RT; Trump says he did interview as favor for King and CNN never told him the interview would appear on Russian TV

September 20, 2016: Hillary Clinton visits Ukraine, vows to defend its borders

October 2016: Steele, frustrated that FBI does not seem to be seriously investigating his dossier, cuts off contact with Bureau

October 28, 2016: FBI announces reopening of Hillary Clinton investigation

October 31, 2016: On eve of the election as an October Surprise, Plamegate figure David Corn--who previously published the Romney 47 percent story to influence the 2012 election--publishes description of Russian Trump Dossier in Mother Jones; bloggers immediately recognize elements of the story as derived partly from fanfiction passed on to Rick Wilson, an associate of Evan McMullin, an ex-CIA officer who began campaigning against Trump in August 2016

November 4, 2016: Newsweek senior editor Kurt Eichenwald publishes sotry titled “Why Vladimir Putin Is Backing Donald Trump”, asserting that Russians hacked German elections and Brexit vote and is now backing Trump

November 6, 2016: FBI announces it has not changed conclusions in Hillary Clinton investigation

November 8, 2016: Donald Trump is elected President, defeating Hillary Clinton; Clinton fails to appear for her concession speech, subsequently blames FBI and Russia for her loss; her supporters start calling for a recount

December 2016: Christopher Steele gives dossier to John McCain, who gives it to FBI

December 14, 2016: U.S. announces plans to send 4,000 troops to Poland in show of strength to Russia

December 27, 2016: US abstains from vetoing UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements “in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967”

January 1, 2017: New York Times reports that over the past several months U.S. Special Forces troops have been quietly deployed to the Baltic states to bolster resolve of troops anxious about Russia

Week of January 1 to 7 2017: Obama and Biden receive briefing that covers Russian Trump Dossier; Trump later receives the same briefing

January 6, 2017: U.S. intelligence community releases declassified report on Russian interference in American election, which spotlights alleged pro-Trump bias in RT

January 10, 2017: BuzzFeed publishes Russian Trump Dossier; CNN reports on the story

January 11, 2017: McMullin insists in Business Insider interview that CIA would not have included dossier in Presidential briefing if it was not taken seriously

January 12, 2017: Joe Biden says he and Obama did not take the dossier seriously and did not ask the intelligence community to investigate it; C-SPAN broadcast interrupted by RT broadcast


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To: EternalHope

Thanks for reading!


121 posted on 01/13/2017 5:17:36 PM PST by Fedora
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To: hoosiermama

Ping .. b I ok marking for more reading. Great framework for flashing out the whole picture.


122 posted on 01/13/2017 6:04:28 PM PST by SueRae (An election like no other..)
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To: Fedora

Didn’t know if you had seen this - at post 17 there is a link to a better story at daily mail.

Ex-Ambassador Sir Andrew Wood admits HE was diplomat who discussed Trump blackmail with McCain...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3513773/posts

Post 17
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4115134/NAMED-British-Ambassador-played-key-role-revealing-dirty-dossier-ex-MI6-man-Donald-Trump.html


123 posted on 01/13/2017 8:27:39 PM PST by Whenifhow
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To: Whenifhow

Thank you.


124 posted on 01/13/2017 9:54:04 PM PST by Fedora
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To: All
This is useful: Clinton Email Investigation Timeline
125 posted on 01/13/2017 9:54:53 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks for the ping on this one. I had missed it. I will
bookmark for study when I have more time on my hand to do so.
126 posted on 01/14/2017 6:05:12 AM PST by Marine_Uncle (Galt level is not far away......but alas! Honor must be earned...)
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To: Fedora

Great work!


127 posted on 01/14/2017 2:19:45 PM PST by Gunpowder green
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To: Whenifhow; LucyT

128 posted on 01/15/2017 7:50:37 PM PST by Brown Deer (Making America Great Again!)
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To: Brown Deer; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; TWhiteBear; WildHighlander57; Velveeta; ...
”Image

See photo at # 128.

Thanks, Brown Deer. Hahaha.

129 posted on 01/15/2017 9:12:52 PM PST by LucyT
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To: Fedora

April 2016 is, I think, when Bernie Sanders made the trip to Rome to see the Hippy Pope.


130 posted on 01/18/2017 3:06:03 AM PST by piasa
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To: Fedora

bkmk


131 posted on 01/19/2017 7:29:59 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44 (If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.)
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To: Fedora
Update: December 26, 2016: Rosneft manager and former Russian intelligence agent Oleg Yerovinkin aka Oleg Erovinkin, who headed Rosneft department handling classified documents, found dead in back of car in Moscow; believed to be a source for Steele: DIRTY DOSSIER DEATH Russian spy linked to Donald Trump’s dirty dossier found DEAD [trunc]
132 posted on 01/29/2017 1:22:07 AM PST by Fedora
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To: Fedora

Thank you


133 posted on 08/05/2017 11:46:17 PM PDT by piasa
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Note: this topic is from 01/13/2017. Thanks Fedora.

134 posted on 12/14/2017 2:33:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Fedora

NOVEMBER 12, 2013 : (VA GOVERNOR-ELECT MCAULIFFE SAYS HE’D VETO BILL ALLOWING URANIUM MINING IN VIRGINIA; HAS NO DESIRE TO DEVELOP REGULATIONS FOR MINING IN THE STATE -—See ANDREW & JILL MCCABE, HILLARY CLINTON , FELON VOTE) The issue has resonance in Hampton Roads, which draws drinking water from Lake Gaston, downstream from a rich uranium deposit in Pittsylvania County. Mining interests have been trying for years to get a 31-year-old moratorium lifted so the ore can be mined.....McAuliffe, a Democrat, takes office in January.
-—— McAuliffe says he’d veto bill to allow uranium mining
Bill Sizemore , Nov 12, 2013 https://pilotonline.com/news/government/politics/virginia/mcauliffe-says-he-d-veto-bill-to-allow-uranium-mining/article_f545f577-caa3-5c54-a7ed-0ed6eaa5a5d7.html


135 posted on 12/15/2017 2:28:04 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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NOVEMBER 12, 2013 : (VA GOVERNOR-ELECT MCAULIFFE SAYS HE’D VETO BILL ALLOWING URANIUM MINING IN VIRGINIA; HAS NO DESIRE TO DEVELOP REGULATIONS FOR MINING IN THE STATE -— see DEMOCRATS, MINING, HEAVY METALS, FBI’s ANDREW & JILL MCCABE, HILLARY CLINTON [see URANIUM ONE, RUSSIA, IRAN] )


136 posted on 12/15/2017 2:30:56 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for the ping!


137 posted on 12/15/2017 11:21:20 AM PST by Fedora
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To: piasa

Thanks for the additional info!


138 posted on 12/15/2017 11:21:41 AM PST by Fedora
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To: Fedora

Heh, it had been a while, but it really seems apropos now, more than then (and I was still in FRexile at the time).

Strzok’s Texts And The Clinton-Trump Investigations — A Definitive Timeline
Daily Caller | 12/14/2017 | Chuck Ross
Posted on 12/14/2017 12:40:09 PM PST by mojito
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3613638/posts


139 posted on 12/15/2017 1:31:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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